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In 1968, a retired Texas railway worker began covering his home with flattened beer cans; 18 years and more than 50,000 cans later, almost nothing had gone to waste
A retired Southern Pacific Railroad upholsterer named John Milkovisch began covering his Houston home with flattened beer cans in 1968, and by the time he stopped nearly two decades later, he had used more than 50,000 cans to transform an ordinary bungalow into one of America's best-known pieces of folk art. Milkovisch started small, embedding marbles, buttons and pieces of metal into concrete around his yard simply because he was tired of mowing the lawn.
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In 1968, a retired Texas railway worker began covering his home with flattened beer cans; 18 years and more than 50,000 cans later, almost…
A retired Southern Pacific Railroad upholsterer named John Milkovisch began covering his Houston home with flattened beer cans in 1968, and by the time he stopped nearly two…
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In 1995, a retired British bus driver began covering his modest home with empty beer containers; around 75,000 cans later, it was known as…
What began as an unremarkable project became the Can House, one of England’s most unusual folk art sites, in Hartlepool. Philip Muspratt was born in 1952 and passed away in 2015.